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Clock, late 20's. Use whatever pronouns are funniest for me. I love Megaman, .hack, JoJo, Nier, and a bunch of other things "No, you are fucking alive do what you want"
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Good Kid 2 (2020) - Good Kid

Run time: 15:50

Number of tracks: 6

Favorite track: Down with the King

Least favorite track: Aloe Lite

Overall feelings: Good Kid’s second EP is so good. I’ve talked about them before so refer to that earlier post. Down with the King is really fun and energetic. Aloe Lite, even tho it’s their most popular off this EP, is too ehh for me. Everything else in this EP is better imo. I always feel bad going over EPs cause they’re usually really short but Good Kid doesn’t have any full albums and deserves to be covered so I’m gonna cover more EP’s. Overall I give this album a “And each move right wipes out what’s left behind” out of “My god, how is it up there on that throne?”

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I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one

There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.

And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.

I could write an entire essay about this.

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